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Vision   /vˈɪʒən/   Listen
Vision

noun
1.
A vivid mental image.
2.
The ability to see; the visual faculty.  Synonyms: sight, visual modality, visual sense.
3.
The perceptual experience of seeing.  Synonym: visual sensation.  "He had a visual sensation of intense light"
4.
The formation of a mental image of something that is not perceived as real and is not present to the senses.  Synonyms: imagination, imaginativeness.  "Imagination reveals what the world could be"
5.
A religious or mystical experience of a supernatural appearance.



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"Vision" Quotes from Famous Books



... genus Baronet in Sir Barnet Skettles, who was so kind to Paul Dombey and so angry with poor Mr. Baps. Sir Leicester Dedlock is on a larger scale—in fact, almost too "fine and large" for life. But I recall a fleeting vision of perfect loveliness among Miss Monflathers's pupils—"a baronet's daughter who by some extraordinary reversal of the laws of Nature was not only plain in feature but dull ...
— Collections and Recollections • George William Erskine Russell
... I play," he said, glumly, to Brice. "And I've nearly a million dollars' worth of thinking to do in this half hour. Is it forbidden to fiddle? Milo's father paid $4,000 for this violin. It's a genuine Strad. And it gives me peace and clear vision. May I play, or—?" ...
— Black Caesar's Clan • Albert Payson Terhune
... ever that he was the savior of this woman's life. Fate had sent her across his path—had given her life to him. He only had been the cause why she should not perish unseen and unknown. This part which he had been called on to play of savior and rescuer—this sudden vision of woe and despair appealing to his mercy for aid—had chased away all customary thoughts, so that now his one idea was to complete his work, and save ...
— The Cryptogram - A Novel • James De Mille
... the huge trunk of a tree, which had been felled beside the road, for the greater convenience of the traveller; and with eyes turned in the direction of the hill on which the sunlight had sunk and appeared to slumber, seemed to enjoy the vision with no less pleasure than our senior traveller. Two tall damsels of sixteen, accompanied by a young man something older, were strolling off in the direction of the woods; while five or six chubby girls and boys were making the echoes leap and dance along the hills, in the clamorous ...
— Charlemont • W. Gilmore Simms
... offensive. Far be it from me to deny that advertising is carried to deplorable excesses in America; but in picking this out as a differentia, Mr. Steevens shows that his intentness of observation in New York has for the moment dimmed his mental vision of London. It is a case, I fancy, in which the expectation was father ...
— America To-day, Observations and Reflections • William Archer


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